Prompt 33 - What Doesn't Kill Me....
Prompt 33

"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger". Do you agree with this statement? Why or why not?

What doesn't kill me makes me stronger? I would think that that's true, at least about some things. In the Territories there are so many natural dangers that a wrong step on a glacier can kill you. But if you survive the experience you learn form it. You step more carefully next time. The Inuit know about how the elements can affect their lives and they learn from their experiences.

I think I learn from my experiences. Although Ray would say the number of times I've risked our lives I probably haven't. Police work is inherently dangerous but by surviving the various experiences we have makes us better able to enforce the law.

So I do agree with that statement. The risk is worth it, the risk of doing my duty or simply trying to survive ultimately helps to make me more knowledgeable and therefore better able to deal with my experiences. It might now make me physically stronger but emotionally it does. Sometimes our own mortality is a strong reminder of life.